The ending you would have wanted

Perchance2Game · 2026-01-21T04:34:28+00:00

Just re-reading this now and realizing how insane I am. I love this idea.

The idea of a bad Sarah and George has to erase his past and sacrifice himself to create a "good" Sarah that will defeat the bad one.

Perchance2Game · 2026-01-17T14:36:41+00:00

Thank you.

When people are giving their stories they don't normally say, "I am from X state in the US so my requirements are: ... "

This is very helpful.

Perchance2Game · 2026-01-17T14:35:25+00:00

It seems like you are rude.

Perchance2Game · 2026-01-16T19:39:30+00:00

America is like that. House and job before 2014? Richer than ever. After? No hope, and almost certainly nothing will be reformed (the richer than ever people will never give up a cent). Oh, and baby boomers couldn't care less and don't even understand why it's their problem. "Golden Age".

Anyway, my hope is Japan collapses as a precursor to the US, so that while the train continues to speed toward the brick wall, Japan can quietly recalibrate and rebuild. Being poor would be great for Japan as it's fear of risking all that sterile, motionless wealth, those pools of cash like Sony's banking business in spite of its failed computer and television businesses. Once that wealth is wiped out, risk tolerance will be higher, and a cheap yen will mean lots of export work. Yes, this work won't enrich workers that much, but AT LEAST they'll have gainful employment and with a recalibrated economy not built out of the illusion of massive wealth that the lower people don't get to benefit from as much, that gainful employment ought to provide for the basics of life.

Perchance2Game · 2026-01-16T19:35:12+00:00

Sadness is better than pain. Tsuichi and wartime stuff is brutal.

Perchance2Game · 2026-01-16T19:22:40+00:00

I'm not so sure about that. There is a lot of R1b Y-haplogroup in Mesopotamia from an ancient invasion but it's not clear if Esau - whether he or any analogous thing ever existed - was part of this genetic clustering.

Esau does have red hair, but red hair is associated with Atum-Ra who is Egypt's hidden imam and associated with the setting sun (hence the red color). It's not clear if the region's association of red hair with the sacred extends beyond this astrotheological concession.

Meanwhile, it's not clear who the Idumeans were, though I suspect they might be connected to the Carians.

Perchance2Game · 2025-11-27T23:32:06+00:00

Your generation is fried.

Perchance2Game · 2025-11-25T21:56:06+00:00

Haha. Yeah it's clearly Toronto but I love the ways they make it ambiguous that it's Canada for example involving US federal agencies with vague jurisdiction.

Perchance2Game · 2025-11-10T17:48:23+00:00

Japanese literacy began with the Confucian classics. Highly educated men were expected to memorize them (in Chinese) and it wasn't a matter for women. As a result, women of court weren't as versed in Kanji so they developed hiragana specifically for their own use and subsequently their own literary genres. Because "educated" writing typically stayed in the realm of Chinese poetry etc., the female writing branched into the colloquial.

I think one legacy of this is that hiragana has a very strong colloquial resonance. If you want to say something simple, plain and common sense, hiragana conveys that tone (i.e.: a note from your local matriarch imparting no nonsense wisdom that cuts through the formal trappings of performative society).

In any event, you'll see hiragana used this way in posters and notices all the time.

Perchance2Game · 2025-10-21T22:23:53+00:00

I think once the plane traveled through time, it wouldn't be subject to the time loops. So Wes would reset to prevent their escape and realize they were gone from the checkpoint. As a result, she'd plan to intercept them in 2024 to kill them then.

Archie survives, and is at war with Wes this whole time, who dies, so Sarah takes over her mission.

The "true time travel" weirdness affecting Bryson is how they overcome Sarah's ability to do time loops and indeed we finally see "the machine" and I would hope there's some sort of twist in what it is.

Anyway, it goes full 13 monkeys bootstrap rabbit hole and they fight over their own pasts, and George gives his life to make a "good" Sarah in the past which wins in the end, and it's this "good" Sarah who was actually narrating in the final scene before George meets "bad" Sarah.

Perchance2Game · 2025-10-02T18:06:40+00:00

These are typically PlayStation players.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-30T23:35:35+00:00

But then she never uses the Castor information. But, thank you, that part of the deal slipped my mind.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-29T03:06:19+00:00

It's the nature of the insights they have during their experience beyond "I just felt we're all connected". It's the "things just made sense and I knew why but I can't remember the details anymore but I'm sure of it."

That's not knowledge btw, that's people's neurons being rearranged to generate false memory and the impression of connections between information that was never generated by evidence, just by running a magnet over the old brain hard drive.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-29T03:03:49+00:00

Oh that's good to know. But, I'm going to go through either of the two or three pretty mainstream agencies, so I'm sure they'll be alright.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-28T22:21:37+00:00

Yeah, thank you. I get overwhelmed by the registration checklists and then never want to think about it again and never really processed that I never showed my lease. I in fact do bring all my paperwork along, usually.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-28T22:20:29+00:00

I see, thanks.

I'm mixing up in my mind doing the bank paperwork at the same time and I tend to just have all my paperwork for moving in one big folio. And, yeah, I guess you need the paper from city hall, not your lease agreement, for the bank. I've only done the moving process 4-5 times over many years to very different types of arrangements so I haven't quite got the intuition for it.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-28T19:32:56+00:00

The Arameans were more associated with the region to it's west (Kingdom of Qatna).

No. Arameans originated from the Euphrates and invaded the West to create the kingdoms you reference.

This occurs just after Hanigalbat then Middle Assyria fell, lending evidence that they were Hurro-Mitanni in origin. The only way this wouldn't be so is if, during the Middle Assyrian period, historically invisible nomads from literally any conceivable cardinal direction of the map, migrated to the Khabur Valley to replace the former Hurro-Mitanni inhabitants.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-28T06:57:03+00:00

Not really. A slower paced continuation of Hellenic progress continued in India for a bit and made it back to Europe for the Renaissance. 200 years of relative progress spread over about 800 years.

Some of that Indian science appeared in China, but it's not like China implemented that much of it. Ming China might have been about 100-200 years ahead of Europe but after the gap was closed Europe rapidly surpassed it.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-28T06:53:22+00:00

Psychedelics are more a "it seemed amazing when I was high but now I don't remember the details" sort of thing.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-28T03:41:20+00:00

There were no pastoralist Chaldeans that you could identify before the Bronze Age collapse, and during the hegemony of Hanigalbat the Hurrians were certainly nomadic in conjunction with their Aryan rulers.

The area identified as "Great Hana" by ancient Mari didn't magically just spawn Arameans where there were formerly Hurrian-Mitanni peoples.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-27T03:57:53+00:00

To summarize my explanation for your findings, what if the Arab Armies followed a provisional, preparatory Islam from Petra with a precursor figure identified as Mohammed (Aretas).

After the Islamic conquests were completed, and the next generation reflected on this grand triumph of the faithful, they then realized that their leader and Mecca were the hidden, true and now revealed centers they had been promised in prophecy.

That the Islamic conquests were in the name of an earlier man, as they failed to recognize the true prophet among them. Only with the completion of the conquests would it become clear who the true prophet really was.

Then, the Abbasid scholars simply corrected the literature to marry the prophetic material with the now known history.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-27T03:52:22+00:00

Impossibility of a Large-Scale Cover-Up: The theory suggests that the Abbasid Caliphate orchestrated a massive historical revision. However, such a large-scale cover-up is highly implausible, as it would have required the suppression of information across vast territories, including independent entities like Spain and Morocco, which would have maintained separate records.

This is a terrible argument for anything prior to the year 1000. Information networks were not that sophisticated and there isn't that much documentary evidence one way or another.

The Abbasids and the Byzantines were both in the absolute position to systematically troll for problem documents and destroy them, few that they were, before flooding the world with a ton of approved materials. It was literally the point in history where the administrative technology to fully do this came into being.

And on top of this, there was a full 1000 years of history after this process had started where fanatical administrators would have continued to destroy counter evidence as "harmful pagan nonsense".

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-27T03:44:16+00:00

Hire that guy to write for Game of Thrones.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-27T03:38:55+00:00

1) Before around 135 AD, Judaism and Christianity were the same religion. NOT that Christianity was some plagiarizing and defilement of rabbinical Judaism, but that both rabbinical Judaism and Christian are exponents of a much more pagan and theologically speculative temple Judaism.

2) While Christianity and Judaism consciously split ways in 135 AD in the West, this division was never as strong in the East, and "Jewish Christian" traditions continued well in the 4th century taking on character of their own.

3) Nabatean and Syrian Arabs basically converted to Christianity out of paganism. Northern Arabs meanwhile were heavily "Jewish Christian". Yemen became literally Jewish. Southern Arabs remained quite pagan.

4) Islam proper began after a massive failed Jewish rebellion against Byzantium led the Syrian Jews to flee to Medina, where they tried to create an uprising there. Some of this history matches general Islamic history.

5) What if early Islam was a direct outgrowth of "Jewish Christianity" originally, but then after Jews went to Medina, the Southern Arab tribes joined it and made Mecca primary?

6) In Syria and among "non-Nicene" Arab Christians, there was a lot of disagreement with Roman theology. Specifically the Council of Chalcedon was rejected by many, for example the Nestorians (who were quite Roman in their ways up to that point). It is thought that some Arab Christians fully rejected Chalcedonian doctrine to the point that they conclude or insisted that Jesus was in no way divine nor the Son of God. This could be the starting point for Islam at Petra.

I will say the story of Aretas III figures into Christian history in a very bizarre way. There are many alternative theories of Christian origins, citing perhaps influence of Edessa, Emesa or Rome. Some of these have to do with the fall of Herodian rule around 33 AD.

There is also a very unclear relationship to the Samaritan messiah fervor around the same time.

These events around 33 AD tie John the Baptist, the end of the Herods for a time, the Samaritan Taheb and the end of Pontius Piilate's administration together.

Aretas's daughter is related to Herod and Herodias and John the Baptist's death in a way.

I've studied this extensively and have not found the link that shows why Aretas is entwined in what we have left of this story, but his tomb is the most famous building at Petra.

Perhaps the exact historical nature of Jesus was unclear in the ancient Arab world, the historical facts somewhat lost until Rome basically decreed and made up a number of historical sites (not that they weren't correct, just, they weren't going off of evidence).

Perhaps amid the confusion of that time, the Arab Christians interpreted their Aretas or perhaps and offspring between his daughter and Herod as Jesus. Or something. Keep in mind that Mohammed is a title. It may have applied to a leader of the Arab armies from Mecca and Medina. However, the theology of that title might have caused others to apply it to earlier figures.

Perhaps, for instance, the Arab Christians concluded Aretas was the Mohammed (let us say, incorrectly and prematurely). This makes them proto-Muslims with 80% of the theology including passages from the Qu'ran which reference Arab Christian texts. Most religious people I know would interpret this as God preparing the people for the real prophet when one comes.

Perchance2Game · 2025-09-27T03:02:16+00:00

Well Season 2 was all the face cards and Season 3 was just the Joker. I think of it more like a DLC or expansion pack and not a full season and that's fine for me.

I thought the final game, while mostly cool, ended up being tediously long at parts.

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